Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWBIGGIN

NEWBIGGIN, a village and a township-chapelry in Woodhorn parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, near North Seaton r. station, 1½ mile N of the mouth of the Wansbeck river, and 7¼ E by N of Morpeth; is a fishing-station and a watering place; is sometimes called Newbiggin-by-the-Sea; and has a post-office, ‡ of that name, under Morpeth, a good inn, a coast-guard station, a life-boat station, and -a roadsteadwith tolerably secure anchorage for small vessels. The chapelry comprises 400 acres. Real property, £1, 586. Pop. in 1851, 717; in 1861, 948. Houses, 184. The increase of pop. arose from extension of fisheries and fromincreased accommodation for summer visitors. A beautiful small bay adjoins the village, and has firm, smooth, safe sands. Several collieries are in the neighbourhood. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Woodhorn, in the diocese of Durham. The church was rebuilt in 1846; has a low spire; contained the effigies of a knight, discovered in 1867; stands picturesquely on a point projecting into the sea on the N side of the bay; and serves as a landmark to mariners. There are chapels for Presbyterians and Wesleyans, a parochial school, and a subscription library and reading-rooms.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Woodhorn CP/AP       Northumberland AncC
Place names: NEWBIGGIN     |     NEWBIGGIN BY THE SEA
Place: Newbiggin By the Sea

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